Two women hurt in downtown parking lot brawl

One stabbed, one beaten in fight early Saturday

Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, June 29, 2008

A woman was stabbed when a traffic dispute set off a melee involving about 40 people Saturday morning in a downtown parking lot, Seattle police said.

The brawl was reported about 2:10 a.m. and drew patrol officers, a SWAT unit and the Gang Unit to the Bank of America Plaza in the 800 block of Fifth Avenue.

When officers arrived, they found the stabbing victim, a 29-year-old woman, with a wound to the left side of her abdomen. Seattle fire medics rushed her to Harborview Medical Center, where a doctor told police the wound was about seven inches deep.

She also had a cut on her left wrist, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening, according to a police report.

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Witnesses told police a man driving a silver Honda tried to cut off the woman in the Bank of America Plaza garage. The woman started honking and pulled forward to stop him from cutting in front of her.

The man then jumped out of his car, pulled the woman from her car, pushed her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her in the head, according to the report.

Medics also treated a woman beaten and stomped on by a man during the fight, Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said. The woman had minor leg and arm cuts and later left the scene.

Several bystanders, some of them emerging from the nearby O'Asian restaurant, jumped into action to assist the two women.

"All appeared to be engaged verbally or physically in this melee," Witt said. "It was like a free-for-all."

When police arrived, the bystanders who had attacked the man fled.

Officers arrested three men, two in their early 30s and one in his mid-20s, and found a bloody knife in the back seat of a silver Honda near where one of the men was sitting, according to the report.

One of the men was booked into the King County Jail, according to the report. Another, who was bleeding from his face, was taken to Harborview.

The stabbing victim gave a statement to police before being rushed to an operating room, police said.